inspector general did not inform the committee of his substantive finding when he first became aware of the targeting no later than july of 2012. and here is where i take a liberty of this committee. a liberty of the congress. despite numerous requests from the committee for information and updates including an august 3 letter, the request for the i.g. to inform congress about serious or flagrant problems quickly, the i.g. failed to do that. that is existing law. that s under the i.g. act. that has been a responsibility of i.g. s across the board since the 70s. and we in fact on this committee both support, defend and promote the i.g.s, but we must also insist particularly after situations like the gs sarks scandal that we not wait 10
sufficient for us to be working with congress. they ve got a whole bunch of committees. we ve got i.g.s already there. they ve done an audit and they will be recommending an investigation, and attorney general holder announced a criminal investigation of what happened. between those investigations we ll figure out exactly what happened, who was involved, what went wrong and we re going to be able to implement steps to fix it. that ultimately is the main priority that i have and also the american people. they understand that we ve got an agency that has enormous potential power and is involved in everybody s lives. that is part of the reason why it s been treated as a quasi-independent institution but also why we have to make
exactly. if you took a third of this and said we re going to get rid of that, what starts to happen, of course, is everything that you really treasure that somebody is telling you would be cut wouldn t have to be cut. the government still has to go on a diet, but this 67 billion is known. when we look at our other ig s, inspector generals and their reports, we re looking at about 7% of the budget that falls in this category which means there s about another 210 million per year of this kind. greta: give me an idea of an idea of waste that s not being attended to by the obama administration. probably one of them that would hit home, pell grants and in fact, student loans, there s a number of known con games going on and it kind of goes like this. you re on some sort of a, what we used to think of correspondence, but now, a distance learning and they re taking advantage of the law where you can put all of this money in tuition and kickback,
exactly. if you took a third of this and said we re going to get rid of that, what starts to happen, of course, is everything that you really treasure that somebody is telling you would be cut wouldn t have to be cut. the government still has to go on a diet, but this 67 billion is known. when we look at our other ig s, inspector generals and their reports, we re looking at about 7% of the budget that falls in this category which means there s about another 210 million per year of this kind. greta: give me an idea of an idea of waste that s not being attended to by the obama administration. probably one of them that would hit home, pell grants and in fact, student loans, there s a number of known con games going on and it kind of goes like this. you re on some sort of a, what we used to think of correspondence, but now, a distance learning and they re taking advantage of the law where you can put all of this money in tuition and kickback,
the report including what is asserted under executive privilege. how in the world is it going to be profoundly different than the information you have accumulated in your hearings? we are trying to be cautiously optimistic. our experience with i.g.s are good. they are partners in moving out waste and fraud. we are going to wait to see the documents. greta: the very thing you want, that you think is going to give you so much information congress that has fought for. he has specifically told for you are not going to get it. what in the world could be possibly new? first of all he can reach conclusions. for example, he can reach the conclusion that lenny brewer or eric holder or jason weinstein knew enough they should have taken action, knew enough about the cover-up. he could reach a conclusion without submitting redacted